Food Integrity Assurance

Mr Exwood has replaced the new NFU president, Tom Bradshaw as director on the Assured Food Standards board, at a turbulent time for Red Tractor, where there is evident ‘mistrust' with its farming members

Red Tractor chair, Christine Tacon said they will not progress with the implementation of any new standards or additional modules until the first NFU independent review focused on Red Tractor governance is completed

Red Tractor’s future, the value of quality assurance for British farmers and whether digital grain passports will be given the green light were top of the agenda as FG’s chief reporter Rachael Brown sat down with AHDB chairman Nicholas Saphir

The NFU Council today (October 23) unanimously agreed to examine the governance of Red Tractor and to look more widely at farm assurance and whether they give 'fair value' for producers

The decision followed a meeting on Monday (October 16) involving both Red Tractor and the British Farming Union

Food Integrity Assurance will now carry out inspections on behalf of four assurance schemes